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Periodically, I come across social media posts or comments questioning the legitimacy of work by a non-credentialed author, healer, or influencer. These questions stem from the fact that, as mental health becomes increasingly recognized as its own discipline, standards are developed to monitor and legitimize it. Academic degrees and clinical licensure help ensure credibility, ethical […]

As we learn and grow, we also begin to recognize the inadequacies of what we once believed. For healthcare professionals, this realization comes with the added weight of knowing that our past lack of knowledge may have hurt the people we worked with and cared for.  In the eating disorder recovery field, there is an

As we learn and grow, we also begin to recognize the inadequacies of what we once believed. For healthcare professionals, this realization comes with the added weight of knowing that our past lack of knowledge may have hurt the people we worked with and cared for.  In the eating disorder recovery field, there is an

Eating disorders can be deadly. They have some of the highest mortality rates among mental illnesses, both as a direct result of medical complications and the increased risk of suicide. Because of this, clients with severe symptoms often require continuous support and medical monitoring that can only be provided in higher levels of care. Active

Does food choice affect mood, energy level, and quality of life? Are some foods healthier than others? Do whole foods, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods impact the body differently? What constitutes a healthy diet—if such a thing even exists? In the eating disorder recovery community, these questions have become highly charged and controversial. Many professionals

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which an individual’s personality fractures in response to extreme trauma. It is often portrayed in its most extreme and obvious iterations and is thought to be so rare that a clinician is unlikely to encounter it throughout their career. Because it has been designated to the realm

In eating disorder treatment settings, meal plan compliance is often used as the objective measure of safety and recovery, which then determines readiness to step down to lower levels of care. It follows that meal plan non-compliance is assumed to be a form of treatment resistance. The reality, however, is that meal plan non-compliance is

Traditional medical and dietetic rhetoric around the relationship between food, weight, and health emphasizes correlations between BMI range and medical conditions. However, it often fails to consider how these correlations are interpreted and how they subsequently impact individual patients and society. In this episode, Laura Cohen shares her personal journey as a former registered dietitian

Can a clinician treat eating disorders while themselves in active recovery? Many of us in the eating disorder recovery field have our own lived experience. It follows that, just like for our clients, recovery is often nonlinear, clinicians are no exception. What happens when a clinician experiences a relapse? Can they still be trusted to

In this episode, I explain what this podcast is, why I created it, and how future episodes will be structured. The eating disorder professional world has become so politically and ideologically charged.  Issues related to food, health, body image, disordered eating, and the impact of these on marginalized communities spark heated debate among ED treatment